Triumphs I & II

By Mary Angeline Bell

Mary Angeline Bell, known as Angie to family and friends, grew up in Portland, Oregon and earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Lewis & Clark College and a Master of Arts from the University of Oregon. She spent three years teaching, then married and had a daughter.

Angie has enjoyed music, poetry, and travel opportunities. She work

• Language: English
• Publisher: Black Lacquer Press & Marketing Inc.
• Release date: Apr 2, 2019
• ISBN: 9781948288095

Mary Angeline Bell

Angie grew up in Portland, Oregon and obtained a Bachelor of Science Degree from Lewis & Clark College in 1961 and a Master of Arts from the University of Oregon in 1965. She spent some time teaching, and in 1968 she married Rex Bell. They lived in Portland and adopted a daugter, Janice Elizabeth (now called Jennie), in 1971.Angie has enjoyed music and poetry from her childhood. She plays the piano and has sung in church choirs. She has enjoyed her travel opportunities, having been to Europe in the summers of 1965 and 1969, and also to a number of american cities for right to life conventions.Angie worked as an office specialist from 1977 to her retirement in 2003 at the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries, Civil Rights Division. She has been a member of Toastmasters International since June, 2000.Each of Angie's parents came from a large family, so there were lots of aunts, uncles and cousins. Her father passed away in 1990, and her mother in 2009. She is much involved in the lives of her two granddaugters, Jessica (born in 1993), and Jasmine (born in 1995).Jessica has a son and daughter, and a third child on the way. Jasmine has a two-year-old daughter.Angies world view is one of faith and hope.

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Contents

Triumphs I

Chaos and Cosmos

The Dream

Harvest

Wasted Cup

Spin

Spring at Last

Brush Strokes

Forging

It is Finished

Apart

False Premise

Build No Wall

Moments

Sharing

Fingers

Ok – Not Ok

Haiku Haven

Different

Still There

Judas

The Raven Banished

Sparrow

The Wall

Crossing The Line

Defending Life

Promise

Control Tower

Does It Yet Wave?

Forced Landing

Unattended

Cascades

Fragrance

Rejoice

To A Child

To the Graduate

Vital Sparkle

Thanks, Friend

It’s My Brothers!

Claudia Procula

Look Now!

Great News! We’ll Celebrate!

Triumphs II

River of Life

Waxing Waning Moon

Haiku Reverie

To Dance

On the Path

Life and Victory

Spring Blessings

What Matters

Cinquain Creatures

Contentment

The Race

Haiku Gems

Mind

Berlin

Remember The Cost

Crime Victim

Therapy

Wounded Dove

Peace

Grace

Floral Cinquains

Storm

Struggle

Choose Life

Let’s Rebuild!

Triumphs I

Chaos and Cosmos

Confounded, I watch

The shattered world around me

Where the creature distinguished by reason

Does constant violence to his own kind.

No sense it makes that we

Who comprehend the order of stars and atoms

Remain in inner chaos,

Causing pain and suffering,

Yet blaming only circumstance.

Yet some have found

That Order from which flows

A mighty cosmos, peace, serenity and power.

They hear the gentle whisper of tenderness and truth.

The Dream

I came home from my errands in the rain;

There was no one at home for me to see.

I looked for some new piece of news in vain;

You know how dull a day like this can be.

And so I fell asleep and had a dream

That I had found the place for which I hope –

A house with airy rooms where it would seem

That I could box my treasures with a rope.

At night, I’d watch the window